Question
The child does not refuse to eat, but leaves half on the plate. How to feed a small mare?
Answer
Let's start with the main thing: do not try to feed him by force. Neither "for Papa Mama", nor for the promise to go to the zoo or watch cartoons, the baby should not eat. So he can develop a strong aversion to food, and especially severe cases of parental blackmail can lead to even a neurosis. If the pediatrician claims that the baby is healthy and active, to begin with, just try to reduce portions. After all, the standards are not designed specifically for your son or daughter, but for an average child. In addition, try to establish a diet and reduce the number of snacks. Baby refused to eat breakfast? Wait for dinner. But do not offer him instead of cereal cookies, sweets or a roll.
Question
Daughters are only 10 years old, and she is suspected of gastritis with high acidity. The main reason - allegedly in the wrong diet.
Answer
Do not despair. In order not to disturb the girl's gastric mucosa, which is traumatized by the disease, change the baby's diet. No crackers, crisps, crispy biscuits, caramels, chocolate bars and carbonated drinks! Enter a strict diet: eating 4-5 times a day (during an exacerbation - up to 7-10 times a day), at the same time, in small portions. Morning is better to begin with a liquid cereal porridge on water or fried eggs, steamed. Instead of juice it is better to offer daughters tea with milk or plain water (preferably from glass, rather than plastic bottles). For lunch, you can prepare meat steamed dishes (puddings, meatballs, knels), boiled fish, mashed potatoes from vegetables. With fresh fruits and vegetables, be careful: some of them irritate the mucous and increase unpleasant symptoms, so use them better during the remission of the disease. The therapeutic and prophylactic diet obliges to refuse from rich meat, fish broths (soups), any fried foods, fatty foods, fresh baked goods, canned products, spicy seasonings and various semi-finished products.
Question
Tell me, what should be breakfast for the younger student? Is there enough glass of tea with a sandwich or cereal with milk?
The schoolboy's breakfast should be nutritious enough. Therefore, it is better for a child to cook oats, buckwheat porridge or an omelet. However, flakes with yogurt or milk, too, do not harm your health. Instead of the usual cooked sausage, it is better to put a slice of hard cheese on a sandwich (there are many substances useful for the growing body). From drinks, give preference to cocoa or tea with milk. Excellent addition - unsweetened cottage cheese, apple or carrot.
But for dinner the kid should get a hot nutritious dish of meat, fish or poultry.
Question
What kind of food should not be in the school cafeteria?
Answer
The order of the Minister of Education in 2006 approved a list of products that should not be in school canteens and buffets. In the "black list" were chips, chocolate bars, carbonated drinks, kvass, crackers, "air" rice, nuts, coffee. In addition, school canteens were obliged to abandon the use of fatty pork, river and smoked fish, mushrooms and mayonnaise.
Replace them with recommended sour-milk products, nuts, fresh fruits and juices. Also, the school canteen is obliged to organize hot meals at least once a day.
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My daughter just loves any soda. How harmful is it?
Answer
In childhood, there is an active process of forming the bone system of the child, and it requires calcium and vitamin D. Scientifically proven: all carbonated drinks wash away these vital substances from the body. As a result, children begin to have problems with the musculoskeletal system. Also in carbonated drinks there are dyes, flavors and preservatives that irritate the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract and, if used regularly, can provoke gastritis. In addition, in 1 bottle of soda contains up to 10-12 tablespoons of sugar, so the abuse of this drink can cause an increase in blood sugar and lead to the appearance of excess weight. Pediatricians are categorical: no soda! Replace it with fruit juices, or even better - mineral water without gas.
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The child eats at home "in snatches." He will eat boiled sausage from the refrigerator and calm down. After 1 hour - chewing chocolate. And so the whole day. What to do in this case?
Answer
So it should not be. Children should be taught to eat strictly by the hour. How? Try to make sure that the baby in between the main meals could not find anything in the refrigerator or salad bowl. But in a week only the regime development and feeding of the child after one year, the organism of a small person will remember this scheme. That is, in the time for dinner or dinner, the time will begin to intensively produce gastric juice. And that means it's time for the table!
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The child gradually, but steadily gain weight. Now he's obviously overweight - even if you starve yourself on a hungry diet. And anyway, what should you do in the first place in such cases?
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With the "hunger diet" you are definitely overdone. It is completely excluded. Whatever the anxious mothers may suspect, children should eat about every 3-4 hours. Another thing - the usual home diet. How to know, perhaps you involuntarily accustomed your child every day to eat potatoes, pasta, often pampered with his cakes and ice cream. Well and in addition the child longly sits at the TV or spends much time behind a computer, that is extremely little and for certain reluctantly moves. Is there such a thing? So, to begin with, urgently review the baby's menu. Exclude flour, fatty, fried, sweet foods, semi-finished products. Instead, fresh (or boiled) vegetables, fruits, berries, nuts should always appear on the table every day. And a lot of greenery (celery, parsley, onions) and fermented milk products, for example kefir. In addition, accustom the child to eat without hurrying. In this case, the feeling of saturation will arise much faster. But when the baby hurries and worries, he can eat more than the norm.
On the other hand, it is impossible to successfully combat excess weight only through proper nutrition. In order to avoid hypodynamia, it is necessary in any way to expel the child to the street more often. For example, write down a pool, a section of skiers, cyclists, dancers, somewhere else. The more he moves, the better. Well, the easiest way is to teach the baby (along with mom or dad) to walk every day and in any weather. Well, for example, when returning from a kindergarten or school, go out one or two stops earlier and walk. This burns a lot of extra calories, and with it the physiologically normal weight for the age group of the child is quickly restored. And the problem disappears.
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Now much is said about the benefits of skim milk for babies. Is it so?
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Children under three years of milk of animal origin (cow or goat, simple or fat-free) should not be given. For older children, children's skim milk, enriched with calcium, is better suited. It controls metabolism, strengthens the nervous system, helps form joints and vertebrae, and charges the child with energy. But please note: milk is not useful for all children. If this product is "pure" contraindicated to your son or daughter, after consulting a doctor, stop the choice on another "milky" version: kefir, cheese, unsweetened cottage cheese, etc. They are also rich in calcium and other substances necessary for a growing body.
Cook together
The modern rhythm of life increasingly makes us buy instant food. Simple and fast, do not need to spend the whole evening in the kitchen. Nevertheless, on weekends, when you do not need to rush anywhere, try to make something tasty with the baby, for example, cutlets, pancakes or cake. Select the child work in accordance with his strength and capabilities. Children 4-7 years old can stir dough, form cutlets, whip cream, decorate fruit cake, wash dishes, wipe off the table. If the child does not get something out, do not abuse him at all and do not pay attention to it. Be patient. Next time it will be all right.